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Paul West

Cheops: Novel

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Paul West creates a glorious, powerful Sun King of Egypt, bent on a death worthy of his great pyramid at Giza. Known for wrapping readers in his historical web, Paul West, in his marvelous, new novel, turns his attention to the 4th Dynasty (approx. 2680 BC) of ancient Egypt. Here, we find the pharaoh Cheops, building the great pyramids at Giza, surrounded by workers and solar boats. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, a hundred thousand men were made to toil constantly for him, and, as Herodotus claimed, Egypt was plunged into all manner of wickedness. In Cheops, West delightfully has Herodotus transported back in time, to meet the gr… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8112-1519-0
  • EAN: 9780811215190
  • Produktnummer: 9875136
  • Verlag: New Directions
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
  • Seitenangabe: 352 S.
  • Masse: H20.3 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.6 cm 445 g
  • Gewicht: 445

Über den Autor


Paul West was born in 1930 in England, and educated at Oxford and Columbia Universities. Besides 18 novels he is also the author of ten works of non-fiction. He has taught at Brown, Cornell, and Arizona. His honors include a 1993 Lannan Prize for Fiction, an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1996 the French government made him a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. He moved to the US in 1957, and presently resides in Ithaca, New York.

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